I used Fink originally but found that some of the packages I needed were very out of date so I tried MacPorts.It apppears to be more up to date and you get the added satisfaction that it compiles everything.Which is good if you're a Gentoo fanboi or bad if you have a slow machine/internet connection.

I've had no reason to try fink recently so it may be better than when I last tried it a year or so ago.

I just started installing GIMP on my 27 inch iMac at work using "sudo port install gimp" and the dependancies it required included Orbit-2 (A CORBA Object Request Broker) and libusb (a USB package for poking about in the USB bus).

zmttoxics wrote:Gimp on OSX using the X11 server was very problematic for me. I ended up purchasing Pixelmator for my quick photo work. Don't regret that part.

I use Aperture for all of my photos but if there is a file I just want to quickly crop/resize/etc without adding it to my library, gimp is great for this. I find gimp much easier to use if you turn on the Click-through Inactive Windows option in the X server.